Cantonal Museum of Fine Arts to Host Otobong Nkanga Retrospective in Collaboration with Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris
The Cantonal Museum of Fine Arts in collaboration with the Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris presents a major exhibition devoted to the work of Otobong Nkanga from April 3 to August 23, 2026. The artist examines questions related to mining, the exploitation of natural resources, and the body's relationship to space and the earth. She produces drawings, paintings, installations, tapestries, photographs, videos, sculptures, ceramics, performances, sound pieces, and poetry through a multidisciplinary practice that draws on her personal history and research into transhistorical and multicultural influences.
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The exhibition highlights the central role of strata in Nkanga's practice, both in the materiality of her sculptures, interventions, performances, and tapestries and in her exploration of exchange and mutual transformation between bodies and land. Institutional presentations of this scale at two leading European museums reflect sustained curatorial focus on artists whose work connects resource politics, ecology, and human-land relationships across media. Collectors and curators may view the project as an indicator of continued institutional commitment to such interdisciplinary practices.
- Artists: Otobong Nkanga
- Museums: Cantonal Museum of Fine Arts, Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris
- Locations: Lausanne
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